Heroes of the Faith

Resurrecting the popular Heroes of the Faith series, which featured champions like Dwight Moody, Oswald Chambers, and the Elephant Man, IBLP has announced that it will begin writing a contemporary HoF series. This time, the subjects of the booklets will be Heroes of the ATI Faith.

Dr. Bill Gothard will personally write these booklets, and he has proposed focusing on godly young leaders within ATIA who gave up college to come home with their parents and younger siblings to develop character. The Heroes will possibly include Rob Robbins, Loren Elms, Kathy Voyer, the Sammons kids, the McKims, Troy Robinson, and Christiana Reed.

This announcement set off some grumbling among past construction and kitchen crews, who claim to have done all the "real" work building ATI and IBLP. "We were too busy working to just stand around on stage and look good," one disgruntled worker said. "I might not have a four-point testimony, but at least I know how to lay red carpet. You tell me which is more important."

how about Dr. Levandusky of the OKTC? it's been years since i've heard anything from any of these HoFs but can't forget his "struggle" with his overly-developed conscience that wondered if he was taking the "right" book off the shelf. OCD or simply insane, that's one deodorant-shunning bundle of deflected urges i'll never forget.

I just wanted to say I was googling articles on Bill Gothard and the atrocity known as his life and "work" and stumbled across your glorious blog.

I thought I was one of the only people who rejected his narcissistic "I am God" cult, but apparently there are many survivors.

Either way, we had to do all the Christian Heroes books, and I remember Florence Nightingale and the Elephant Man particularly. Those books were hideous and contrived. Do you remember the illustrations? Ahhh, the illustrations.

My family dropped out of ATIA some time after my brother and I were caught taping Star Trek: the Next Generation over instructional videos dad made us watch (we learned from the neighbor kids across the street how to tape over non-recordable VHS tapes --- and yes, we weren't "allowed" to play with those kids after that event and many others). We knew it was wrong (and a few months prior would probably wee ourselves in mere contemplation), but at that point in our respectively 8 and 10 year old lives, it was either live this miserable life, or maybe get killed by dad for standing up for what's right. In the end, we didn't die, but had decided doing so would be comparable to the grotesque ordeal our parents then referred to as "school".